Even when I'm chanting the Name,

I'm hearing God first (and simultaneously), 

I'm hearing (t)His Silence first, 

I'm hearing the Real Name, first--

this Name that can't be pronounced,

the Sound that is more pronounced than everything else,

the One that is called the Secret Language, 

(y)Our Secret Remedy. 

"Listening to This Sound, the Yogi overcomes all obstacles and feels blissful." - Nada Bindu Upanishad

I Love You

I Am You

nik 

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Remember the sound of a door in your house closing.

Remember the sound of your phone ringing.

Remember the sound of your car starting.

Remember the sound of a dog barking.

Remember the sound of laughter from a baby.

Remember the sound of surf at the ocean.

Remember the sound of a loved one's voice.

Remember a special sound from your childhood. - Baird Hersey, The Practice of Nada Yoga

"There are four levels of speech, the spiritually wise know them all. Three are secret. Mortals use the fourth." - Rig Veda 1.164.45.

"Never remain without His Presence, without His Name." - Anandamayi Ma

"Teach me to feel that Thou art the power behind all wealth, and the value within all things. Finding Thee first, I will find everything else in Thee." - Paramahansa Yogananda

Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” - John 4 13-14

Exhale. 

Can you soften today? 

Can you slow down today? 

Can you Serve without an attitude today?

Your children, or your partner, your coworkers,

or your boss, your pet--

can you do it without haste?

Without just trying to get it over with?

Can you do it like that's Me in need of Service?

Can you look down at that body like,

"thank You for appearing as me"?

Exhale. 

Posture into My Strength. 

Sit up into My Smile, 

into this Reality where what you were just praying for,

what you were just hoping for,

is finished.

It was done, 

in the Beginning. 

You're remembering... 

It's been Me all along. 

Exhale. 

I Love You

I Am You

nik 

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"I will simply become a place for God today.

There is no need to produce or perform or perfect - simply become a place for God." - Ann Voskamp

"When I feel worry today, this season,

I will simply exhale.

Worry is belief gone wrong.

Because you don't believe that God will get it right.

And Peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air." - Ann Voskamp

"God is manifest in you in a way that He is not manifest in any other human being. Your face is unlike anyone else's, your soul is unlike anyone else's, you are sufficient unto yourself; for within your soul lies the greatest treasure of all-God."-Paramahansa Yogananda

 

No mistakes were made.

No missteps were taken.

Just stumbles,

towards the Light.

Groping for Me in the darkness,

but it was never dark. 

Your eyes were just closed. 

Your mind was just full,

of what never was.

But now it's full of Me,

telling you, 'the Path has been made straight,

and you're on It. 

The more you call My Name,

the more yours will be called,

the more yours will be known,

the more you will know Me,

as your Self.'

I Love You

I Am You

nik 

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"No one expected me. Everything awaited me." - Patti Smith  

"When you find the Light within you you will know that you have always been in the center of wisdom. As you probe deeper into who you really are, with your lightedness and your confusion, with your angers, longings and distortions, you will find the true living God.

Then you will say:

"I have known you all my life

and I have called you by many different names.

I have called you mother and father and child.

I have called you lover.

I have called you sun and flowers.

I have called you my heart. 

But I never, until this moment, called you Myself." - Emmanuel, Book 1

"The World is a Magic show. Like a Mirage in the Desert.

Concentrated Bliss alone is the Reality.

This is the Avadhuta." -Avadhuta Gita

"Have you noticed that you're doing everything better than you've ever done it before?

It's almost as if more of you is in tune with whatever is in front of you.

Whatever needs attention. Why is this? You're becoming ever more present in the now. This moment. Less of you anchored in the past leaves more of you to feed your energy to what already is. As a result, your experiences are amplifying, your results are elevating, and your life is taking off." - @SourceMessages via IG

"Desires are always about small, worthless things. Whatever is worth desiring, you are already in it and you already have it." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Anyone having any problem, know that with the problem comes the solution. When a dog comes it comes with its tail. If you can't see the solution...wait the dog will wag it's tail." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"God, today help me set aside everything I think I know about You, everything I think I know about myself, everything I think I know about others, and everything I think I know about my own path so I may have an open mind and a new experience with all these things. Please help me see the truth." - The Set Aside Prayer, 12 Steps 

Instead of avoiding or trying to cover the Silence by reaching for creature comforts today (idle chatter, unnecessary busyness, etc), reach for the Comforter in the Silence.  Sit in the big Quiet and feel for the Love inside.  Touching this place inside is the end of loneliness.  It's the end of fear.  It's the end of your perceived separation from God, from your Self.   Reach for the Comforter, and smile, and then go about your Sunday in and AS Love.

I Love you,

Nik

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Today's Quotes:

"Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly, let it cut more deep.  Let it ferment and season you as few human or even divine ingredients can.  Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft my voice so tender my need of God absolutely clear.” - Hafiz

“Man ordinarily lives in loneliness. To avoid loneliness, he creates all kinds of relationships, friendships, organizations, political parties, religions and what not. But the basic thing is that he is very much afraid of being lonely. Loneliness is a black hole, a darkness, a frightening negative state almost like death … as if you are being swallowed by death itself. To avoid it, you run out and fall into anybody, just to hold somebody’s hand, to feel that you are not lonely… Nothing hurts more than loneliness.

But the trouble is, any relationship that arises out of the fear of being lonely is not going to be a blissful experience, because the other is also joining you out of fear. You both call it love. You are both deceiving yourself and the other. It is simply fear, and fear can never be the source of love. Only those who love are absolutely fearless; only those who love are able to be alone, joyously, whose need for the other has disappeared, who are sufficient unto themselves…
The day you decide that all these efforts are failures, that your loneliness has remained untouched by all your efforts, that is a great moment of understanding. Then only one thing remains: to see whether loneliness is such a thing that you should be afraid of, or if it is just your nature. Then rather than running out and away, you close your eyes and go in. Suddenly the night is over, and a new dawn … The loneliness transforms into aloneness.
Aloneness is your nature. You were born alone, you will die alone. And you are living alone without understanding it, without being fully aware of it. You misunderstand aloneness as loneliness; it is simply a misunderstanding. You are sufficient unto yourself.” ― Osho

"Fear can be an indication that we are letting go of false comforts to find the true comfort in the silence.  Fear can be a sign that we are becoming aware of our unnecessary busyness, the loneliness we feel, the needs we usually ignore, including our need for peace, and quiet.  Fear emerge as our substitutes for the Love in the silence no longer work, and only silence is present." - Dr. Bruce Davis

Can you hear the Silence,

while the crying is (t)here?

While the heaviness is (t)here,

can you be Light?

It doesn't push the heaviness away.

When you wake up in the heaviness, you actually bring it closer.

Because you feel safe,

you can bring it closer,

you can hold it,

because God is holding you.

And because you know God is holding you,

you can finally release it.

Release the fear.

It's not who you are.

Release the past.

It's not where you are.

Release yourself.

It's not really here.

Only the Word is. 

I Love you,
Nik
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"And we pray,

not for new earth or Heaven

but to be quiet in Heart

and in Eye, clear.

What we need is here." -Wendell Berry

"When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey." -Wendell Berry

"If you can't meditate, pause before every sip of coffee. If you can't pray, simply say thank you before every meal." -Vex King

"Courage is a love affair with the unknown." -Osho

"As one drawn to his lost spiritual home

Feels now the closeness of a waiting love,

Into a passage dim and tremulous

That clasped him in from day and night’s pursuit,

He travelled led by a mysterious sound.

A murmur multitudinous and lone,

All sounds it was in turn, yet still the same.

A hidden call to unforeseen delight." -Sri Aurobindo, Savitri – I: The World-Soul

His Holiness S.B. Keshava Swami wakes up in and AS Love every morning at 4 am to dance, sing, and chant the Holy Names in the form of the Great Mantra, the Mahamantra. This morning, he also dropped by GoOD Mornings to cha(n)t with You! 

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
— Kali-Santarana Upanisad

He shares deep insights, stories, best practices, and inspiration to keep you inspired and on this pathless-Path of Devotion and Love. 

"When I started this tradition, one of the  devotees said to me, 'this process is not meant to make you believe in God ,it's meant to equip you with the tools and practices by which you can perceive the Presence of God at every moment in your life.' And that was really inspiring for me- this is Real." - S.B. Keshava Swami 

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S.B. Keshava Swami is a spiritual author, community mentor, dynamic teacher and worldwide traveler. In 2002, after graduating from UCL (University College London) with a BS in Information Management, he adopted full-time monastic life to expand his knowledge, deepen his spirituality, and share these timeless principles with the wider society.

For over twenty years, Keshava Swami was a resident monk at ISKCON UK’s headquarters, Bhaktivedanta Manor. There he pioneered the School of Bhakti (www.schoolofbhakti.com), led the monastic training program and drove forward national outreach projects.  In 2022, Keshava Swami accepted vows of lifetime renunciation.  He continues to diligently study the Sanskrit texts, considering how to proliferate spiritual wisdom in a world that is suffocating from materialism.

 

When you're chanting,

you're no longer where you appear to be.

You're no longer in that city,

or that state,

or that country.

You're in God's Country.

You're covered by the Kingdom.

Srila Prabhupada said it's like being in a foreign embassy in a foreign country.

So long as you are within that embassy,

you are not living in the foreign country.

They can't touch you.

So long as you are chanting,  

feeling this Love, 

Maya can't touch you,

the illusion is seen as an illusion.

It still appears,

but the Truth is now seen. 

And that Truth sets you free. 

"You have been set apart as holy to the Lord your God, and He has chosen you from all the nations of the earth to be his own special treasure." - Deuteronomy 14:2

I  Love You

I  Am You

nik

p.s. I have some special malas left from my personal stash, HERE, if you need one to chant on!

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Today's Quotes:

"You're not set aside, you're set apart."- Lysa TerKeurst

"Love is the cure, for you pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent." - Rumi 

"Have the name of God on your tongue, in your breath, ever. That will invoke His form, as the inner core of every thing, thought,or turn of events. That will provide vou with His company and contact with His unfailling energy and bliss. That is the Satsanga (good association), which give you maximum benefit. Converse with God, who is you; derive courage and consolation from Him. He is the Guru most interested in your progress." (S.S.S.Vol.VIlI.p.48)"- Satya Sai Baba

"Krishna means the most attractive. He is the Divinity that pulls everything to it...Krishna is the formless centre that is everywhere.  Be clever like Radha… Krishna couldn't escape from Radha, for her whole world was filled with Krishna. If u can see that whereever there is an attraction, there is Krishna, then you have become Radha. Then you are always in your center." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Srila Prabhupada: Forgetfulness of relationship with Bhagavan, Krsna, is materialism. Actually, everything is Bhagavan, but when we forget the relationship of this world and Bhagavan, Krsna, that is materialism. Just like we are offering some foodstuff to Krsna. So Krsna is eating matter? No. Krsna cannot eat matter. He is spirit. Then how we are offering the same rice and dal to Krsna which is also being cooked in the hotel? The thing is that here is the sense that "This rice or dal is given by Krsna." There is remembrance of Krsna; therefore it is spiritual. And there, in the hotel, they do not know Krsna; therefore it is matter.

That is the difference between matter and spirit. Actually, everything is emanation from Krsna, so there cannot be anything matter. But the forgetfulness...What is this material world? The material world everyone is forgetting Krsna. Their only business is to forget Krsna. Therefore it is material. But if Krsna consciousness is there, no more material world. Just like this temple. This temple is spiritual, Vaikuntha. It is not Los Angeles. Don't think like that. It is Vaikuntha, because here every second the remembrance of Krsna is there. Therefore it is not Los Angeles. Or anyone who remembers Krsna always, twenty-four hours, he is living in Vaikuntha. He is not in the kingdom of maya. That is required. [Bg. 9.14]: "Always thinking of Me."

So if you keep this practice, always thinking of Krsna, then you are not in the material world; you are always in the spiritual world. For practical example: just like there are foreign embassies in foreign countries. So long they are within the embassy, they are not living in the foreign country. That is the law. Suppose I belong to some foreign embassy. So I have done something criminal. So the American government cannot arrest me from the embassy.

When I come out, he can arrest. So ships also, when they are on the port of a foreign country, so on the ship also the foreign police force cannot arrest anyone. These are the etiquette, law. So if it is possible in ordinary dealings… So if it is possible in ordinary dealings, so why not possible spiritually? And that's a fact. If you keep always yourself in Krsna consciousness, you do not belong to this material world. Then actually you are part and parcel of Krsna, your spiritual identity." - Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.27 - - October 2, 1972, Los Angeles

And every time you're tempted to go out and seek for It where It's not,
stop.
And breathe in...
breathe out...
And Love your Self enough to go slowly,
to Hear clearly,
that Voice that says,
"I Am."
"I Have."
"It's Here."
Thank you,
thank you,
thank you.

I Love you!
Nik   

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Today's Quotes:

"The kingdom of God is not in the clouds, in some designated point of space; it is right behind the darkness that you perceive with closed eyes."
- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Some time back, I asked my Master, 'How long should I meditate?
He gave this example to help me understand, If you were told there is a treasure of four hundred thousand dollars at a depth of twenty feet, how long would you spend daily trying to dig it up?* Then it was clear to me, 'I would work all day and all night and would not rest until I had reached that treasure; I answered. "Similarly," he continued, "and this is just tour hundred thousand dollars of worldly treasure, But inside us, at the third eye center, there is a limitless wonderful treasure and for that we are to devote all our time.  This treasure never decreases. One can even take it with one after leaving the body. It is not a worldly kind of wealth.  If you take one piece from a worldly treasure, then it will always be one piece less. But the godly treasure is such that the more you use it for yourself and others, the more it will increase."
-Good Stories, July 17,1977 (Thakar Singh) 

"You will attain what you want only
if you seek for it where it is.
If you want happiness, seek for it
in the Self, in God, the fountain
source of the highest bliss,
not in sensual obiects."
-Mahavatar Babaji 

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You are making a way where there was no way. 

I Am (is) giving you a glimpse. 

I Am (is) multiplying you. 

Keep going, 

in My Stillness,

in My rhythym,

at My pace, 

not yours. 

"He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers." - Deuteronomy 7:13

I Love You

I Am You

nik 

p.s. The movie I mention - 40: The Temptation of Christ 

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"So many people struggle with trying to know the difference between a voice that is coming from the ego or from the Soul. 

A voice that’s coming from the ego is trying to feel safe and know that it’s loved.

A voice that is coming from the Soul already feels safe and already knows that it’s Love(d)." - Cory Muscara 

“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” John 14:26

May the morning bring me word of your unfailing Love. For I have put my trust in you. Show me the way thay I should go, for to you I entrust my life. Teach me to do you will for you are my God. May your good spirit lead me on level ground." -Psalm 143:8

"Remember not the former things

Nor consider the things of old

Behold I am doing a new thing

And now it springs forth.

Do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness 

And rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:18-19

 

To get to the GoOD part of your life,

you have to die to this part.

You have to not react to this part, 

not desire or want in this part. 

You have to be Baba, now.

You have to be Christ, now.

You have to be Mother, now.

You aren't becoming. 

You aren't believing. 

You're be-Loving. 

I Love You

I Am You

nik

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"What you will hear in your ear, in the other ear proclaim from your rooftops. After all, no one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket. Nor does one put it in a hidden place. Rather, one puts it on a lampstand, so that all who come and go will see its light."- Jesus (The Gospel of Thomas)

"God spoke the Word, and this light appeared. I appeared not of my own or another's volition, but I was sent forth. By the Father as a living witness. That life is good, for God is good." - Virginia Stephenson 

"Whatever you can become is not what you are." - @thehamsterwheelisnotmotorized

Ram Dass podcast I listened to (mentioned in the episdoe).